Documents seen by the Guardian reveal for the first time the full details of the allegations of rape and sexual assault that have led to extradition hearings against the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange.
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Assange, who was released on bail on Thursday, denies the Swedish allegations and has not formally been charged with any offence. The two Swedish women behind the charges have been accused by his supporters of making malicious complaints or being “honeytraps” in a wider conspiracy to discredit him.Assange’s UK lawyer, Mark Stephens, attributed the allegations to “dark forces”, saying: “The honeytrap has been sprung … After what we’ve seen so far you can reasonably conclude this is part of a greater plan.” The journalist John Pilger dismissed the case as a “political stunt” and in an interview with ABC news, Assange said Swedish prosecutors were withholding evidence which suggested he had been “set up.”
However, unredacted statements held by prosecutors in Stockholm, along with interviews with some of the central characters, shed fresh light on the hotly disputed sequence of events that has become the centre of a global storm.
Read the article to find out what the charges are.
Oh Julian, will this vast conspiracy never end?
You must be driven to ask “Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles ….”
I guess Wikileaks was named after something else, huh? đ
Glenn Beck, who I’m sure some of you hate, actually did an analysis of the timeline and events that occurred prior to these rape charges. This is a total setup, by who, is the question.
Of course it was a terrible screw.
He’s Aussie.
Here’s a link that will help you take the measure of John Pilger:
Get it while you can and don’t miss Assange’s cameo.
Since I’m posting that, I just want you all to know that I’m a harmless crackpot and I believe in Bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster, UFO aliens and Atlantis.
I also believe that recent internet and log-distance outages have nothing to do with installing a kill-switch even if three lines were “out” in this state.
And I’m sure that the recent influx of wads of cash to Twitter had nothing to do with the allegations of filtering out the Wikileaks stories from the trending feed.
What a soap opera! The women complain to the police because they had bad sex! A travesty and waste of everybody’s time! If it was not for Wikileaks, this would have been thrown out one more time. Don’t forget it was thrown out once before. This is covert operations at play. The more ‘they’ continue with it the less they will accomplish. Assange is now considered a hero cult figure and a victim in most circles. Stupid covert operations at play – once again.
Where’s the evidence? Everything is based on her word. So what?
I don’t admire any of the people in the sex case but the fact that governments are investing big bucks in this case suggests somebody with political clout is pushing it and that comes back to being targeted for the leaks rather than sex.
He has POd a lot of big shots in a lot of different countries and he is going to get nailed.
Sounds like he is more than a bit of a bastard that has a taste for ‘damaged goods’. Kind of like how Kobe could ‘rape’ a woman that never said no – because the foundation of abuse had been set early in her life and she disassociated without the clear “Aw hell NO” that a normal woman would yell if you tried to stick it in her pooper.
The problem is, that in a bad situation the ‘maybe’ or no response from a woman is a clear ‘no’ but only in her head.
It doesn’t seem to me that the women are involved more than having gotten together and fueling each others anger. It is second the prosecutor that seems to be doing this for the wrong reasons, so far more for publicity than actual persecution perhaps with a political axe to grind (like every suit brought by an attorney-general before they run for governor).
Makes me think this is a government pressured ‘make good’ by the Swedes to make up for the torrent/pirate bay failure.
Back in the “Stone Age” they use to assassinate someone, in other to get rid of them. But after too many prominent assassinations, only managed to incense the public. Character assassination became the weapon of choice, for taking out someone who wasn’t doing what they were told to.
Example, the Pentagon aimed a female cruise missile, Monica Lewinsky, at Bill Clinton, who they had to have known, had a checkered past with men. So why else rubberstamp her clearance to work as a White House aid? The resulting scandal gave the GOP the fuel they so desperately needed to nullify most of Clinton’s second term. And still more character assassination of John Kerry, kept him from winning the election over George Bush. And yet, none of the so-called Swift Boater’s allegations were ever proved.
Nixon had a dirty tricks squad, to help him get reelected. And this probably existed in some other forms, in the US and overseas. That some Swedish bimbo would cry rape, just at this crucial time, and not before, definitely sounds suspect. Especially when the Swedes have a more sexually open culture, compared to the rest of the world. Sweden’s Prostitution law makes it legal for women to sell, but not legal for men to buy. Thus the profession is protected, even promoted. But the clients are extorted by the legal system, if caught or turned in. Convenient in Assange’s case, eh?
Come on Uncle Dave, this conspiracy crap is not up to your usual standards. Where’s the connection to President Bush?
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It would seem the laws in Sweden are a bit biased against men.
I would think you proto-feminist liberals would be in agreement with that.
Whats the most interesting is seeing the chronological SMSes, tweets and blog posts left by the women who clearly had nothing but payback on their minds after finding out that Assange was ‘doing’ both of them at the same time.
After all, the main crazy bitch has wrote and been quoted many times about how she thinks that all men should pay for being bastards and similar themed gems of wisdom.
In Sweden its the government who can make allegations of rape, NOT the alleged victim. This whole thing is government concocted and led, and the two stupid women gave the govt the perfect excuse to start trying to get to Assange for their US masters.
Neither woman has actually claimed Assange raped them, they simply (they claim innocently) asked the cops what their options might be if such a thing happened and the cops were instructed to run with it in order to get Assange and hand him over to the US authorities despite him not having broken any laws, nor behaving in a way that was any different to how the news media used to act before they lost their balls to their corporate masters.
Boobo has been raped people. Send in the Feds!
The honeytrap has been sprung …
gives credence to the related posting
Assange’s accuser Anna Ardin a ‘Cuban CIA collaborator’
http://acfs-perth.blogspot.com/2010/12/assanges-accuser-anna-ardin-cuban-cia.html
I sneer at the insinuation that the CIA set this up.
The CIA does not finesse things very well. They would have had someone beat the crap out the women to back up their claims of rape.
Still, I think he did it. Look at him, for god’s sake. Tell me he’s not a pervert!
“he agreed unwillingly to use a condom”. /// Interesting bit of language there. I know a guy that “dated” a woman once and once only. He now has shared custody of a little girl. Makes unwilling agreements look very beneficial and I thank my lucky stars.
Somebody–got 5 mins in before recognizing that video is 94 minutes long. Assange is at 78 minutes.
“The media promotes war” is a key early statement and makes me want to watch the rest of the video when time permits.
You imply that this is a bad piece of propaganda? Seems the very opposite to me. War is always sold on lies. What is it about “the truth” that we human beings just can’t stand?
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Having rough, unprotected sex with Swedish women…
THAT is perverted to you?
Wow. Really wow.
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Assange is a bit on the “albino” side of whitey for my own tastes although I admit I don’t understand why most women see anything in us typical males.
The two women are close to his breed, but much better looking:
http://gossip.whyfame.com/sofia-wilen-and-anna-ardin-accusing-julian-assange-of-rape-8461
# 21 Cursor – ‘Having rough, unprotected sex with Swedish womenâŚ
THAT is perverted to you?’
Didn’t say it was bad…
Assange is who he is. Not someone you want to spend a lot of time with.
On the other hand, WikiLeaks is the opening salvo in an geek led information war. The game is on with or without Assange. Governments and corporations are angry because they aren’t good at this.
Two questions: Can someone tell me a major item they didn’t already know before WikiLeaks? Why do Sarah Palin and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad share identical outrage over WikiLeaks?
Ngram search. Liberty vs. Security 1800-2000. Sad.
#24 ” WikiLeaks is the opening salvo in an geek led information war. The game is on with or without Assange. Governments and corporations are angry because they arenât good at this.”
I think you are spot on and WikiLeaks is ironically going to be responsible for less disclosure and more security. While governments and corporations may not “be good at this” they have tremendous resources.
As #7 said “Assange is now considered a hero cult figure and a victim in most circles.” but that is not going to last
#26–Nextlie, the Boot Licker: If Assange “causes” less disclosure and more security shouldn’t he be seen begrudgingly as a hero (sic) of some kind if only an early warning for the Jack Boots who want their government to more effectively lie to the world? I wonder how far up, and how recently, some overpaid consultant got paid to tell his Masters that the internet ecurity secret systems were all doing just fine? Pro’s and Con’s to all we do–dontcha know?
But you continue while admitting Assange is now a hero that that status will change in the future. Magic Ball? Eight Ball? Just your own desires? Given you now claim the ability to foretell the future, I can only hope it is more accurate than your renditions of the past? Oh, that would be a joy.
Detail? Will Assange become a greater Hero, or a lesser one and why?
We will all hold our breaths while you scan the entrails.
#23
My point was that you implied what he did was perverse, not the norm.
Look when he is accused of having unprotected sex with a woman and a narwhal, while using a riding crop and wearing a Mao Tse-Tung mask and singing “These Are A Few of My Favourite Things” in Spanish; then we’ll call it perverse.
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“The first complainant did not make a complaint for six days (in which she hosted the respondent in her flat [actually her bed] and spoke in the warmest terms about him to her friends) until she discovered he had spent the night with the other complainant.”
This fiasco only helps Assange. He is now both hero and victim.
“The childish panic that has swept the policy establishment over the past few weeks over the Wikileaks revelations themselves will soon subside. Secretary of Defense Robert Gatesâs sensible remark that â[g]overnments deal with the United States because it’s in their interest, not because they like us, not because they trust us, and not because they believe we can keep secrets,â is worth a boatload of apocalyptic prognostications …. ”
http://tnr.com/blog/foreign-policy/79868/wikileaks-cyber-warfare-hacking?utm_source=ESP+Integrated+List&utm_campaign=97aecdea33-TNR_Daily_121410&utm_medium=email